Glossary of terms in long distance phone services

• 800 Number

• Billing Increments

• FCC (Federal Communications Commission)

• Dial Around Service

• Federal Tax (Federal Excise Tax)

• Federal Subscriber Line Charge (Subscriber Line Charge, SLC)

• Interexchange Carrier

• Interstate Rate

• Intrastate Rate

• LATA (Local Access Transport Area)

• LEC (Local Exchange Carrier)

• Local Number Portability Charge (LNP)

• Local Service

• Local Toll Service

• Long Distance Toll Service

• Minimum Billing Increment

• Minimum Usage Requirements

• Municipal Charge

• Off-peak Rate

• Peak Rate

• PIC (Primary Interexchange Carrier)

• PIC Freeze

• PIC Switching Fee

• PIC-C (Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge, National Access Fee or Carrier Line Charge)

• RBOC (Regional Bell Operating Company)

• Regional Toll Service (Local Long Distance, Local Toll)

• Slamming

• State & Local Municipal Tax

• USF (Universal Service Fund, Universal Service Charge)